• The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the University of Tokyo signed an international academic exchange agreement and a memorandum for a comprehensive student exchange (December 21, 2016).

• 【Call for Papers】 The First Mobilization Conference on Social Movements and Protest: Nonviolent Strategies and the State (San Diego, May 6-7, 2017) 

• Kota Miura (LAINAC Staff) delivered a presentation in the Chile-Japan Academic Forum 2016. (Puerto Natales, November 8, 2016) 

• 【Lecture】Invited lecture in the Annual Meetings of Japan Society of Social Science on Latin America  (November 6, 2016)

Dr. Daniel Buquet (University of the Republic, Uruguay)
"The transformation of Uruguayan politics: From clientelism to programmatic competition"

• 【Lecture】 The Embassy of Mexico in Japan: Lecture by Professor Aurelio Asiain (November 4, 2016)

Aurelio Asiain (Kansai Gaidai University, Essayist, Poet)
"La poesía clásica japonesa en la literatura mexicana a propósito del Hyakunin Isshu."

• Shunsuke Matsuo (LAINAC Staff) delivered a presentation in the Chile-Japan Academic Forum 2016. (Santiago, November 3, 2016)

•  Seminar Series "Big Data and Natural Language Processing in the Social Sciences & Humanities" #2

Antonio Ruiz Tinoco (Sophia University, Japan)

"Analyzing Twitter on a real-time basis using Elastic Stack"

• Seminar Series "Big Data and Natural Language Processing in the Social Sciences & Humanities" #1

Nestor Alvaro (Data Scientist at BEEVA, Spain)

"Exploring Semantic Role Labeling"

• Dr. Takeshi Wada (LAINAC Representative) was invited to give a lecture at the 1st National Congress of Social Movement Studies In Mexico. (Mexico City, October 19, 2016)

• The University of Tokyo and the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium) strengthen their collaboration (from Dr. Geoffrey Pleyers, LAINAC Global Scholar, Université de Louvain, Belgium).

• 【Announcement】Study Travel to Japan from El Colegio de México (November 20, 2016 - January 5, 2017)

• The 2016 UTokyo LAINAC International Conference on "The Power of Memory: Perspectives from Latin America" (June 10-12, 2016).

• Secretary Iván Da Ponte and Secretary Marcela Viviana Barone from the Embassy of Argentina in Japan came to the 2016 UTokyo LAINAC International Conference “The Power of Memory: Perspective from Latin America”  (June 10 & 12, 2016).

• Seminar Series "Género, feminismo y cuerpo: Aproximaciones teóricas y empíricas" (May 17-20, 2016)

Instructor: Karine Tinat (El Colegio de Mexico)

• Brown Bag Lecture Series #16

Karine Tinat (El Colegio de Mexico)
"Simone de Beauvoir and her feminist thought in Mexico"

• Mr. Carlos Almada, the Ambassador of Mexico to Japan, met with Dr. Masashi Haneda (Executive Vice President) and Dr. Takeshi Wada (LAINAC representative) on Hongo Campus of the University of Tokyo (April 26, 2016). 

• The 14-day student program "TAKUMI: Japan from inside" (March 21 - April 2, 2016).

• Ms. Emy Kameta (Secretary in charge of Academic Affairs at the Embassy of Mexico in Japan) and Dr. Kazuko Nagao (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM) came to the Hongo Campus and listened to the final presentations delivered by the students from Spain and Latin America who participated in the Takumi program (April 2, 2016). 

• An article on “Takumi” (Interactive program for students from UTokyo, Spain and Latin America) was published by Yamanashi Nichinichi Shinbun (a regional newspaper) on April 1st, 2016. The report was on the visit we made to Ishikawa carpentry place. It vividly describes how the students from abroad and UTokyo tackled the carpentry tasks along with some neat pictures.

• Yutaka Aida (LAINAC Staff) has been selected for the Shibusawa Eizo Scholarship for FY2016!

• Yutaka Aida (LAINAC Staff) has been selected for 2015 Scholarship for Japanese to study abroad of the Konosuke Matsushita Memorial Foundation!

• Hiromi Makita (LAINAC Friend) has been selected for Research Fellowship for Young Scientists of JSPS (DC2 for FY2016-2017)!

• 【Call for Papers】1er. Congreso National de Estudios de los Movimientos Sociales: Repensar los movimientos. Diálogos entre saberes y experiencias (Mexico city, October 18-21, 2016) (from Dr. Sergio Tamayo, LAINAC Global Scholar, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México).

• Ms. Paola Nagamatsu from the Embassy of Colombia in Japan came to the opening lecture of the TAKUMI student program, delivered by Dr. Yoshifumi Saito (Graduate School of Education, the University of Tokyo) (March, 22, 2016). 

• Global Praxis in Mexico (January 21 - February 3, 2016)

• The 2016 LAINAC International Workshop on "The Future of Democracy after Neoliberalism: Challenges from Latin America" (January 12 - 16, 2016)

• Brown Bag Lecture Series #15

Atsuko Niitsu (The University of Tokyo)
"El arte chicano y su sensibilidad estética popular"

• Brown Bag Lecture Series #14

Kota Miura (The University of Tokyo)
"Análisis con Twitter de la resonancia de marco en los movimientos estudiantiles en Chile (2010-2013)"